annoying hearth rug migration

[newatthis]

Our Oslo sits sort of downhill on the stone hearth, which is slightly lower than the wall-to-wall carpet in the living room, and there's an area rug on top of the wall-to-wall. So the fiberglass hearth rug tends to migrate downhill toward the legs of the stove whenever we step on it, and we constantly are pulling it up and away from the stove. Repositioning it all day long. Picture below.

I'm not in love with the rug, which has been used as a scratching post by the cats, plus the glass fibers get into my clothes when I sit or kneel in front of the fiber.

Is there a way to fix the rug into place, or is there an easy/cheap rug replacement that won't move? Definitely not up to a hearth rebuild or floor redo at this time.

 

[pen]

Is there hardwood under the carpet or just standard subfloor? If no hardwood, I suppose you could just put down a few smallish flat head nails. Keep them 3/4 in in length and you shouldn't have to worry about hitting anything under the floor (unless of course you have radiant heat in the floors, or some such thing).

Or, perhaps try some carpet tape? http://www.amazon.com/9971-1-88-Inc...F8&qid=1420341198&sr=8-2&keywords=carpet+tape

pen

 

[newatthis]

Thank you, pen, for the good ideas and link. Didn't know of the existence of carpet tape.

 

[velvetfoot]

I put some screws in my rectangular fiberglass hearth rug and put a better looking rubber backed poly rug over the top. An ember would go right through that but hopefully the fiberglass will slow it down til it cools. It is rectangular, though-an easier shape to find.

 

[newatthis]

velvet, you screwed the fiberglass rug to the carpet below?

 

[velvetfoot]

There is wood below it. I put two screws through the fiberglass run into the wood-the wood exposed a little there. I've already brought the Persian rug out to be repaired once, and hope not to do it again, knock on wood.

 

[Candlewick8]

I have a similar problem. I used the hook portion of velcro (1 strip is hook and the other is loop) dots and it has slowed the carpet migration down considerable. I'm going to get some long strips of sticky back velcro hook and give that a try.

 

[newatthis]

Candlewick, did you attach the velcro with sticky-back, or use the sew-on kind? How big were the dots?

 

[begreen]

There really should be an actual hearth pad that is to the hearth pad specs in front of the stove. I am uncomfortable with using a heath rug as a hearth pad.

 

[firefighterjake]

This install would not have passed muster in my home . . . or in the city where I work. I just would not be all that comfortable with a rug in place of the required hearth.

That said . . . to answer the original question. Carpet tape or you may go to Walmart, department or hobby store and pick up this material -- it's a rubber grippy material often used in silverware drawers to keep things from moving. Many of our throw rugs have this laid down . . . the rubber grippy stuff keeps things in place very well without any glue residue to deal with later on.

 

[Candlewick8]

I had only 6 sticky back dots left over from a different project. The dots are 1 inch. The carpet is in front of my brick hearth, but it's where I kneel down and twist and turn while loading the stove etc..